Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

how do i be more active as a massive introvert with autism and ADHD? every few days, i sign petitions, send emails, and make calls, and i hope to take the leap and protest IRL someday.

however, i easily get burnt out from keeping up with how things are going, and i'm in a perpetual state of "disappointed, but not surprised." a couple weeks ago, i found a protest opportunity, but lost interest in it a few hours later. i'm also not good with words so i just boost what others have said.

how do i overcome these things that are clearly holding me back? is there a way to overcome them?

I'm totally out of money for this month and need to save up for something "very important" -- I'm selling the following items (Germany preferred, shipping anywhere in the EU possible):

White, basically unused Nintendo Switch OLED - 200€

Optionally All the games I have for another 100€ (Zelda TotK, Omori, Pokémon Legends Arceus)

Hifiman Sundara planar headphones (you WILL need to replace the pads they're disgusting) - 150€

i5-6600K, MSI Z170 board - 50€

i7-6700K, ASUS Z170 board - 70€

2x 8GB G.Skill DDR4-2800 - 20€

Nvidia GTX 1660 Super - 70€

128GB Intenso SSD - 5€

256GB Adata NVMe SSD - 15€

Hyper 212 Black missing all its mounting hardware (literally free I can't use it anyway)

Can add to any of the Z170 bundles: Noctua NH-U12S cooler (+15€) or a generic but huge cooler (+10€).

Feel free to ask for images.

Can sell bundled items separately if needed I just wouldn't prefer to. Prices under typical market prices because I need it quickly

I like a lot of this stuff, but I don't need any right now. Boosts appreciated!!

People still really use the incredibly inaccurate and misleading BMI scale? It even has racist origins, and was created by someone who wasn't a health physician or doctor.

just found out that emily motyka, one of the alleged murderers, posted white supremacist shit online. such as the confederate flag.

that bitch two years younger than me.

ny police saying they cant say if a hate crime was commited against sam nordquist cause the suspects "identify as lgbtq+" and one of them isnt white, so guess that means they couldnt have tortured this black trans man for weeks and weeks before killing him and ditching his body in a field just because he was a black trans man. only white cishets can commit that as a hate crime i guess /sarcasm

https://blackqueer.life/@so_treu/114031945348186970

OH: "my brain is only compatible with infodumps made for the autism API"

i'm going to be real with you
have respect for hobbyist developers.
I don't care about what people's takes on sustainability is here, that's not relevant to whether you should be taking a hobbyist developer seriously. the entire kernel is literally just a hobbyist project that got big. dozens of graphics drivers that are fully khronos compliant (NOT just asahi!!!) started as hobbies. Panfrost was a hobby project until it wasn't, freedreno was a hobby project until it wasn't, nouveau was a hobby project until it wasn't, radeon.ko was a hobby project until it wasn't, and some of those hobby projects getting the blessing of companies doesn't change that.
open source literally thrives on non-profitable ideas

Lists with free or affordable alternatives to big commercial applications and services…

➡️ https://switching.software

➡️ https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

➡️ https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

➡️ https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle

➡️ https://codeberg.org/ADHDefy/delightful-creative-tools

➡️ https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

➡️ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNXpuy5tVP0q-El0DqoY-AwmPHT6K09NEZG-Pf0KJ7E/edit?tab=t.0

➡️ https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

#software #tip #tips #free #OpenSource #FOSS #tech #technology #BigTech #FediTip #FediTips #MastoTip #MastoTips #tools

Happy to announce that Waag Futurelab installed Peertube to host our video content. Check https://tube.waag.org We are in the process to migrate our Vimeo en Youtube content to the Fediverse.

In today’s “terminology matters”:

❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.

Boeiend! Terwijl sommigen stellen, dat transgender zijn een hedendaagse mode is, waren er al in de middeleeuwen mensen (waaronder zij die interseks geboren waren) die zelf hun gender bepaalden en, meestal zonder medische ingrepen, maar zelfs die kwamen voor, bevestigden! https://theconversation.com/trans-people-affirmed-their-gender-without-medical-help-in-medieval-europe-history-shows-how-identity-transcends-medicine-and-law-248559?utm_content=buffer80995&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=buffer

The number went up

I personally know FOUR people at Microsoft now who have gotten laid off in the last 6ish years since I joined two of them through social circles, two thru the actual trans I’ve been on.

all four have been out transfem

I don’t know a single cis person who has been laid off

I know multiple cis men who have done unspeakably incompetent and inappropriate things.

I don’t know a single cis person who has been laid off. I work with a LOT of people at this company.